Guest Editorial
BY DR. MARK W. HENDRICKSON | JANUARY 12, 2011
The Tea Party's uphill challenge
The Tea Party movement and its millions of supporters have high hopes that the recent elections will rein in runaway government. While I endorse this objective, accomplishing it will be far more difficult than most people realize.
The Tea Partiers will have to contend with more than just a Big-Government president and Senate. They also face well-funded, well-connected, and well-entrenched special interests, plus a public that expects the officials they elect to shrink government and balance the federal budget only if it’s the other guy’s programs that get cut. Would-be reformers will also have to deal with the larger, permanent, unelected powers that aren’t accountable to the people. Keep Reading...
Guest Editorial
BY CAROLYN ABELL, LTC U.S. | JANUARY 12, 2011
2010 in retrospect
It might be easy to look at the negatives that prevailed during the past year. Unemployment has continued to rise. The local newspaper has several pages filled with home and business foreclosure notices, while the "Help Wanted" section has been temporarily shut down for lack of content.
Even worse, the enemies of freedom in our own beloved country continue efforts to chip away at the fundamental rights established by the United States Constitution, with special focus on that hallmark of democracy: freedom of speech.
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